Designing A Dream Pet With Petplan

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My four-year-old daughter is a huge animal lover, she loves to visit farms and zoos and thinks every animal is cute, especially the smaller animals. Ever since she visited a farm at Easter and got to hold a mouse she has been desperate for a one of her own and asks every day if she can get one. As we have a pet cat, Marmalade, I don't think getting a pet mouse is a very good idea right now. 

This doesn't stop her dreaming about her much wanted pet mouse though, she has picked a name for her dream mouse, Minnie - obviously! And as she is only recently four she truly believes that she can get a purple and pink mouse (her favourite colours) and that it will be her very best friend. 

So when Petplan's pet insurance got in touch and asked if she would like to create her own dream pet and get it transformed into a cuddly toy I just knew she would create a purple mouse. 

As she has only recently turned four and she is still at the stage where her drawings are very scribbled like, luckily she had her teenage sister on hand to create her masterpiece for her. Both my girls love being creative so it was nice to watch them actually spending time together doing something together. 

She decided that she wanted a mouse called Minnie, with a white body and purple spots, pink feet and a pink heart nose and a big long golden tail. Minnie also had sparkly blue eyes and a smile on her face and was super cuddly and soft. 

A few weeks later a package arrived in the post for Sophia and her little face lit up when she opened it up and discovered her drawing, of her dream pet Minnie had been turned into a cuddly toy for her.

Getting her drawing turned into a toy was so special as it was a chance for her imagination to come to life, like never before.